List of Roman Bridges - Timber and Stone Pillar Bridges

Timber and Stone Pillar Bridges

A timber bridge is a structure composed wholly out of wood, while a stone pillar bridge features a wooden superstructure resting on stone pillars. Strictly speaking, many bridges of the second type should be rather called "concrete pillar bridges", as the Romans preferably used opus caementicium for constructing their bridge piers (stone was confined in these cases to covering). Both types, timber bridges and stone respectively concrete pillar bridges, are listed here in the same category as historically, with the consolidation of Roman power in the newly conquered provinces, wooden bridges often gave way to solid pillar bridges.

Image Name River Town Country Spans Comment
Apollodorus Bridge
(or Trajan's Bridge)		 Danube Turnu-Severin/Kladovo Romania/
Serbia		 21 x >30 m Concrete pillars; longest arch bridge for over 1000 years
Caesar's Rhine bridges Rhine Koblenz Germany c.26 spans
Chesters Bridge North Tyne Chesters England 4 x S Possible stone arches
Constantine's Bridge Danube Corabia Romania/
Bulgaria		 ? Concrete pillars
Cornelius Fuscus's Bridge Danube Orlea Romania/
Bulgaria		 ? Timber bridge
Justinian's bridge Siberis Sykeon Turkey 8 x 5.4-9.6 m
London Bridge Thames London England ?
Piercebridge Roman Bridge Tees Piercebridge England ?
Pons Aelius Tyne Newcastle England ?
Pons Sublicius Tiber Rome Italy ?
Pons Tirenus Garigliano Minturnae Italy ?
Römerbrücke Mosel Trier Germany ? Arches added in Middle Ages
Römerbrücke Rhine Cologne Germany 20 spans
Römerbrücke Rhine Mainz Germany ? First built ca. 30 AD
? Churn Cirencester England ?
? Eden Hyssop Holme Well England ?
? Forth ? Scotland ?
? Irthing Willowford England Possible stone arches
? Kelvin Summerston Scotland ?
? Loire Orléans France ?
? Loire ? France ?
? Rede Elishaw England ?
? Rede Risingham England ?
? Rhone Genf Switzerland ?
? Saône ? France ?
? Seine Paris France ?
? Tees Pounteys Bridge England ?
? Trent Cromwell England ?
? Tyne Corbridge England 6-11 x S Possible stone arches
? Wear Binchester England ?
? ? Hunwick Gill England ?
? ? London, Newgate England ?
? ? Wallasey England ?
? ? Water Newton England ?
? ? Wroxeter England ?

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